Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
